The announcement of the date for the King’s coronation has sparked calls for a change to the May bank holiday in order to mark the event. The deeply religious affair will be held on Saturday May 6 next year, with the Queen Consort being crowned alongside Charles, Buckingham Palace announced.
It will take place in Westminster Abbey, eight months after the monarch’s accession and the death of the Queen. Following the announcement, the Daily Mail reports a number of MPs have called for the May 1 bank holiday to be pushed back until Monday May 8 to give the country a long weekend.
Tory former Cabinet minister David Jones told the paper: “To combine the two events would be welcomed by the entire nation. It would make a very special memory for all of us.”
